tomwebber Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 (edited) Hi All, After generating a instrument summary using the tool, It works fine and I can see all the symbols, category titles but not the symbol names. I've checked my inventory and everything seems fine. It looks like the text is there but they're hidden. I've attached a screen grab. Hopefully can someone help me with this strange issue. Edited June 1, 2014 by tomwebber Quote Link to comment
SAR Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 If there us no data in your Lighting Symbol Maintenance window under Spotlight-Reports- Lighting Symbol Maintenance you will not get symbol names to show up in the instrument or position summaries. If you have data then note that the symbol name is taken from the Model Field which can be edited or if you have names in the type field can automatically be put into the Model Field using the copy types into the Model name button. Steve Ross Quote Link to comment
tomwebber Posted June 2, 2014 Author Share Posted June 2, 2014 Nope my lighting symbol maintenance has all the correct info in it. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee klinzey Posted June 2, 2014 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted June 2, 2014 Select the instrument summary and check or change the font and size. The font may be very small. If you a re still having issues you should contact technical support directly so they can examine the file. Quote Link to comment
JBenghiat Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 I agree that text settings may be causing your issue. Options for the body text set via the Text menu with the object selected. On insertion, the object uses your default text settings. -Josh Quote Link to comment
tomwebber Posted June 6, 2014 Author Share Posted June 6, 2014 (edited) No, That's had no effect either. Even after changing the font and re-inserting. Edited June 6, 2014 by tomwebber Quote Link to comment
JBenghiat Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 I'm going to second Kevin's suggestion of sending the file to tech support. Font size is the only issue I could predict from the screen shot. The only other troubleshooting step you could take is to duplicate the Summary and Convert to group (not to be confused with just Group). You can then enter the group and examine if the object includes text blocks. -Josh Quote Link to comment
Max McDougall Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Did this get resolved? I'm having a similar issue. Quote Link to comment
Max McDougall Posted July 2, 2014 Share Posted July 2, 2014 Sorted it out. Was a font issue. It was easier for me to fix once I sized the text based on my units rather than points. Quote Link to comment
Max McDougall Posted July 9, 2014 Share Posted July 9, 2014 NM.. issue is back again.. Trying to label legends and the chosen fields won't show up in layout view. I can't seem to place text anywhere in vectorworks either. It says that the 'text size is too small for creating or editing'. However, I have trying increasing the font size (dramatically even), zooming in, and changing font type to no avail. Help? Quote Link to comment
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